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| 20080245150 | Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Imaging Device - The object of the present invention is to provide a the three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging apparatus for improving accuracy of internal inspection of an object to be inspected and enabling an automatic determination by means of ultrasonic waves. The three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes: an ultrasonic transducer having a plurality of piezoelectric vibrators; a driving element selecting portion for selecting a piezoelectric vibrator to emit an ultrasonic wave among a plurality of the piezoelectric vibrators; a signal detecting circuit for causing ultrasonic waves emitted by the selected piezoelectric vibrator to enter the object to be inspected, receiving echo reflected from the object to be inspected, and thereby detecting an electric signal corresponding to the reflected echo; a signal processing portion for generating three-dimensional imaging data by subjecting the electric signal corresponding to the detected reflected echo to parallel arithmetic processing; and a display processing device for receiving the three-dimensional imaging data from the signal processing portion, correcting image luminance of the three-dimensional imaging data so as to flatten imaging intensity distribution in the plane direction of the surface of the object to be inspected, and then displaying a corrected result. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20100212429 | ULTRASONIC INSPECTION APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC PROBE APPARATUS USED FOR ULTRASONIC INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND ULTRASONIC INSPECTION METHOD - An ultrasonic inspection apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe apparatus including an ultrasonic transducer; a drive element selecting section that selects a required piezoelectric vibrator of the ultrasonic transducer; a signal detecting circuit that detects an electric signal dependent on a reflected echo of an ultrasonic wave emitted from the selected piezoelectric vibrator; a signal processing section that produces data on an internal image of the inspection object based on the detected reflected echo; a second display unit that combines multiple pieces of image data acquired from the signal processing section and displays an integrated visualization data result; and an second input unit that is used to perform an operation command such as a command input to start or terminate an inspection or an a command to set inspection condition. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110000300 | ULTRASONIC INSPECTION APPARATUS - There is provided an ultrasonic inspection apparatus using scanning path information with high accuracy at a time of ultrasonic flaw inspection. The ultrasonic inspection apparatus includes: a measurement unit measuring a distance to a surface of the object to be inspected to obtain measurement data including a group of points; a shape data generation unit, by using the measurement data including the group of points obtained by the measurement unit, for generating shape data of the surface of the object to be inspected including the group of points having position information represented by a coordinate system of the scanner mechanism; and a path information generation unit, by using the shape data generated by the shape data generation unit, for calculating a passage point on the surface of the object to be inspected that forms a scanning path of the ultrasonic transducer, and generating the scanning path information of the ultrasonic transducer in which a normal vector of the passage point on the surface of the object to be inspected and an opening surface of the ultrasonic transducer intersect each other, and a distance between the passage point and a center of the opening surface of the ultrasonic transducer is constant. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110102429 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL ULTRASONIC INSPECTION APPARATUS - A three-dimensional ultrasonic inspection apparatus includes: an ultrasonic transducer disposed m×n piezoelectric vibrators in a matrix; a signal processing device to receive, detect an echo, and generate a three-dimensional image data by processing an electric signal of the echo detected; and a display processing device to display a result of processing the three-dimensional image data generated by the signal processing device, wherein the display processing device includes a peak detecting unit to detect a first peak and a second peak of an intensity distribution of the three-dimensional image data in a depth (z) direction, a joint portion image creation unit to create a three-dimensional image of the joined area by mapping z direction distance of the first peak and the second peak to x-y plane, a determination unit to determine whether the joined area is sound or not, and a display unit to display the three-dimensional image and the determination result of the joined area. | 05-05-2011 |
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| 20090288490 | COPYING APPARATUS - There is provided a copying apparatus that copies a workpiece, including a shoe that comes into contact with a portion of the workpiece to be copied, and a first swiveling unit that swivels with the shoe in an arc pattern around a point, as a swiveling center, on a plane where the shoe comes into contact with the portion of the workpiece to be copied. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090293620 | COPYING APPARATUS - There is provided a copying apparatus that copies a workpiece, includes a shoe that is brought into contact with the workpiece, an air cylinder that enables moving the shoe in a vertical direction, a clamping mechanism that grasps the workpiece from side surfaces placed in a direction orthogonal to a traveling direction and, and a lateral translatory slide guide that slides the clamping mechanism in the direction. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100251822 | ULTRASONIC INSPECTION DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC INSPECTION METHOD - An ultrasonic transducer is provided with a distance measuring ultrasonic sensor for detecting a distance between the ultrasonic transducer and a surface of an inspection object and an inclination of the ultrasonic transducer with respect to the surface of the inspection object, to control the distance and the inclination of the ultrasonic transducer with respect to the inspection object based on information detected by the distance measuring ultrasonic sensor, and at least part of ultrasonic wave transmission/reception by the distance measuring ultrasonic sensor is performed during execution of aperture synthesis processing during which transmission/reception by the ultrasonic transducer is not performed. | 10-07-2010 |
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| 20090112583 | Language Processing System, Language Processing Method and Program - A language processing system, method, and program to automatically in time obtain text analysis results. The system comprises a plurality of text analysis units, each performing a different type of text analysis processing, an analysis order control means controlling order of analysis of text by each of the text analysis means, and an additional processing execution means receiving and executing additional processing for the text analysis results from each of the text analysis means, from a user. At a stage which a text analysis result by any one of said text analysis units is outputted and said additional processing execution unit operates, said analysis order control unit performs control to start text analysis processing for other text analysis means. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090168976 | Voice Recognizing Apparatus, Voice Recognizing Method, and Program for Recognizing Voice - In a voice recognizing apparatus, a voice recognizing method, and a program for recognizing voice are provided to carry out voice recognition with high precision. When a call receiving unit in which a plurality of telephone numbers for receiving are assigned to respective contents of calls receives a call from a caller, a calling voice signal input device inputs a calling voice signal of the call, and a receiving telephone number input device inputs the receiving telephone number of the call. A voice correction device then carries out voice correction processing for the calling voice signal in accordance with the receiving telephone number and a voice recognizing device executes voice recognition processing for the calling voice signal in accordance with the receiving telephone number. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090307210 | Text Mining Device, Text Mining Method, and Text Mining Program - Provided is a text mining device capable of showing a user whether the characteristics extracted by a text mining are either common to all texts independently of the citations, in case the text to be mined is configured with texts of a plurality of kinds of different citations, or deviated toward a text of a predetermined citation. The text mining device includes a citation information creating device for creating the citation information of texts containing characteristics extracted from a text set collected from a plurality of citations, and a mining result output device for outputting the characteristics and the citation information in a corresponding manner. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100063795 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - [PROBLEMS] To provide a data processing device such as a text mining device capable of extracting characteristic structures properly even in case a plurality of words indicating identical contents or a plurality of words semantically associated are contained in input data. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Association node extraction unit ( | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100076749 | LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, LANGUAGE PROCESSING METHOD, LANGUAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A language processing system according to the present invention includes: an input device | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100164440 | Charger for electronic device, electronic device, and charging method - A charger for an electronic device that charges a rechargeable battery of the electronic device. The charger includes a detection unit, which detects connection of another electronic device to the electronic device through a communication cable including a power supply line. A charging unit charges the rechargeable battery with power supply voltage from the power supply line. A measurement unit acquires a measurement value indicating a degree of a voltage drop of the power supply voltage occurred when the charging unit performs charging. A control unit instructs a charging current value for charging the rechargeable battery with the charging unit. When the detection unit detects connection of the other electronic device, the control unit monitors the measurement value while instructing the charging unit to increase the charging current value from an initial current value and determines the charging current value based on the monitored measurement value. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100223291 | Text Mining Device, Text Mining Method, and Text Mining Program - With respect to each part at which a word included in a characteristic condition defining a characteristic text set designated by a user through the input device appears in text, the characteristic condition assurance degree calculating unit of the text mining device obtains a reliability of the word from the word reliability storage unit to operate a value of a characteristic condition assurance degree for each text by predetermined operation based on all the obtained reliabilities. The characteristic condition assurance degree calculating unit executes operation such that when a value of each reliability is large, a value of a degree of assurance becomes large. The representative text output unit outputs text whose characteristic condition assurance degree is the highest among texts whose characteristic condition assurance degrees are calculated together with its characteristic condition assurance degree. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110202532 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD, AND INFORMATION SHARING PROGRAM - There has been a problem in a related art that as information of a certain topic is scattered, the information cannot be shared efficiently,. An information sharing system includes a specified section linguistic analysis element that performs a linguistic analysis to a specified section text and outputs linguistic analysis information, a specified section topic generation element that generates topic information from the linguistic analysis information, where the topic information is a topic of the specified section text, and a bulletin board management element that refers to a bulletin board information storage unit and if address information of a bulletin board corresponding to the topic information is obtained, outputs the address information or a set of the topic information and the address information as corresponding bulletin board information. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20080246993 | Image processing apparatus, job management method for the same, and recording medium having recorded thereon job management program - Upon reception of a job, a control unit of an image processing apparatus executes processing for judging whether any cancellation factor exists. If there is no cancellation factor, the control unit outputs pages relating to the job, stores page information thereof, and updates execution history information after outputting all the pages. If there is any cancellation factor, the control unit performs only preparation for output of the pages, stores page information obtained through the preparation, and updates cancellation history information after storing the page information of all the pages. A message as a result of evaluation of the cancellation history information is displayed on an operation panel. The message prompts an administrator to change management condition as needed. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080263546 | Image Formation Apparatus and Program - An image formation apparatus that has a webpage viewing function includes a job receiver that receives a job execution instruction from a user terminal, a job analyzer that analyzes the received job execution instruction, a job executor that executes a job based on a result of the analysis, and a job registration part that, if the received job execution instruction includes URL information specifying a webpage, registers user identification information pertaining to a user who issued the job execution instruction and the URL information included therein in correspondence with each other such that the webpage can be viewed with use of the URL information. | 10-23-2008 |